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The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
by G. Weston Dewalt, Anatoli Boukreev
adventurous
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
I listened to the Blackstone Audio audiobook version of The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston deWalt, narrated by Lloyd James. This is Boukreev's rebuttal to Krakauer's original article on the 1996 Everest disaster. This one is 4⭐️ from me.
So, I'd already read Into Thin Air before reading The Climb, and based on what Krakauer had written about Boukreev, I was questioning him and his decisionmaking on the mountain during spring 1996, for sure. But hearing about the disaster from Boukreev's perspective was really interesting and definitely added a new layer to the story.
Boukreev was a guide for the Mountain Madness Expedition, and so in this book we saw much for of Scott Fisher and the members of his expedition, rather than the Adventure Consultants group described in Krakauer's book. From the perspective of a guide rather than a client, we also heard a lot more about the organisation of the expeditions, and the difficulties they had hit well before the storm on 10th May.
Boukreev’s book definitely feels like a hurried, defensive response by a non-native speaker to Krakauer’s book, and he doesn’t write as engagingly or sensationally as Krakauer, but I loved the alternative perspective on this - but do read it after Into Thin Air.
Boukreev describes some key incidents pretty differently from Krakauer, and I suppose we'll never know who was right - or how much the altitude had affected their minds and their recollections. But this was another really interesting read.
So, I'd already read Into Thin Air before reading The Climb, and based on what Krakauer had written about Boukreev, I was questioning him and his decisionmaking on the mountain during spring 1996, for sure. But hearing about the disaster from Boukreev's perspective was really interesting and definitely added a new layer to the story.
Boukreev was a guide for the Mountain Madness Expedition, and so in this book we saw much for of Scott Fisher and the members of his expedition, rather than the Adventure Consultants group described in Krakauer's book. From the perspective of a guide rather than a client, we also heard a lot more about the organisation of the expeditions, and the difficulties they had hit well before the storm on 10th May.
Boukreev’s book definitely feels like a hurried, defensive response by a non-native speaker to Krakauer’s book, and he doesn’t write as engagingly or sensationally as Krakauer, but I loved the alternative perspective on this - but do read it after Into Thin Air.
Boukreev describes some key incidents pretty differently from Krakauer, and I suppose we'll never know who was right - or how much the altitude had affected their minds and their recollections. But this was another really interesting read.